How to fix "error setting owner of a.s to uid 0 and gid 0" without sudo

This is related to another question on logrotate qs1 . When running the command logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/test, I am also getting a error: error setting owner of /var/lib/logrotate/status.tmp to uid 0 and gid 0: Operation not permitted error. The answer in the other question said that this issue can be fixed using the sudo command sudo logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/test . Is there a way to fix this without the sudo access? Can I avoid setting the owner to uid 0 and gid 0?